Why did God want us to believe in him solely on faith? Why would he chose an option that makes us always question him and doubt his existence.
Instead why didn't he present more solid evidence and show himself to all of us which would than enable our critical thinking skills to never doubt his existence or message.
Why does he look down on us knowing people are confused and being mislead, but does nothing noticeable to stop it.
2007-12-20 09:42:54 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
KJV sir that is not logic. You are assuming things
2007-12-20 09:47:37 · update #1
Because God doesn't care to spend eternity with a bunch of puffed up know-it-alls.
2007-12-20 09:46:43 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, you see Jesus was rejected and tortured horribly by the Jews, the people He picked because they were in need of Him, not because He needed them. And through disbelief they tortured and killed Him. Also when satan got kicked out of Heaven he took 1/3 of the angels with him no doubt they did not believe in God's goodness.
I feel that is why we are to work on strengthening our Faith in Him while we cannot see Him then when we can it will be an unbreakable Faith for all eternity. Take care and may God bless you spiritually.
2007-12-20 09:53:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He didn't leave us w/o proof. The Bible is the inerrant word of God. Eye witness accounts of the birth, life, death and resurection of Jesus the Christ, are good enough for me. I also have seen in my own life, changes, that without the power of the Holy Spirit, could have never happened. I have had prayers of faith answered by God so remarkedly well that any doubt has been totally erased. No, my friend, the evidence of God is all around us. We all just need to be aware of Him.
2007-12-20 10:01:14 · answer #3 · answered by Proverbs twenty7 7teen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Faith is not the absence of reason and logic...
Rather faith is a compliment of reason and logic...
There is no substitution one for the other...
Hebrews 11:1 - "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld."
James 1:22 - "However, become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning."
Philippians 4:5-7 - "Let YOUR reasonableness become known to all men. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving let YOUR petitions be made known to God; and the peace of God that excels all thought will guard YOUR hearts and YOUR mental powers by means of Christ Jesus."
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 - "But a physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah, that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ."
1 Thessalonians 5:21 - "Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine."
Reason, logic and faith are very much needed...
Journey Well...
2007-12-20 10:03:38 · answer #4 · answered by Juggernaut 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is somewhat of a contradiction. God gave us the faculties of reason and logic and there is no ban in using those faculties. I personally see nothing wrong in applying logic to the question of God's existence. If the conclusion after due consideration is that He in fact does not exist, then reason has been satisfied and the matter can be concluded.
2007-12-20 09:58:49 · answer #5 · answered by flugelberry 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The deal is God is after relationship. He knows everything. He created it. Fact doesn't impress Him.
The question to ask is: What does the fact that God chose faith over reason and logic tell us about who He is? And what he desires?
You can't trust in someone you don't know. You can get to know the person to see if they are worthy of faith. Relationship, relationship, relationship... in a relationship there is love, trust, growing, and communication. Fact is cold and hard. It requires nothing of the heart.
2007-12-20 09:51:27 · answer #6 · answered by Diane D. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the comparable way we've self belief in technology why not in historic previous? If the historic previous let us know that Jesus existed and adult adult males wrote and testify approximately his good deeds why not? To have self belief or not have self belief what the historic previous let us know is a different concern. To have self belief in God isn't a invention of the church however the very own God who made himself flesh and lived between us is the guy who created the church. faith and good judgment can combine and infrequently not. each technology and concept must be examined to be certain that us to make certain no count if it is sweet or not. The historic previous revealed to us that the way that church substitute into created and all tests that it go through can make certain that it is sweet.
2016-12-11 10:23:56 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did answer your question thousands of years ago and it still holds today:
1 Cor 1:18-25
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
20 Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom , 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom , and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
NIV
If man's wisdom is so great, why is there still poverty, cruelty and crime in the world? Certainly by now man's wisdom should have overcome all these things and created the utopia that it has envisioned for so long.
Man's wisdom always ends up thinking they are smarter than anyone, but they don't even understand human nature.
2007-12-20 09:59:04 · answer #8 · answered by deanr610 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does; it is man that is accepting an illogical statement; the scriptural old testament is the law of Moses, not Genesis-Malachi. There are other deviations to God's word presently in USA also; to God's disgust!!!
2007-12-20 10:13:14 · answer #9 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe to see who would believe in the tough times and who wouldn't because there wasn't enough reason and logic for them. Some people are never satisfied with it. I find belief in God very reasonable and logical.
2007-12-20 09:46:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋